Choctaw Indian Chief. Served as Chief of the Choctaw Indians from 1878 until his death, in office, in 1880, only seven months before his term was to expire. Educated at Norwalk and Spencer Academies, he became an attorney, a county judge, a district judge and a presiding officer of the Choctaw Nation Supreme Court. The town of Garvin, Oklahoma in McCurtain County was named for him. The location of his burial place lies 3/4 miles north of Iron Stob Store just off Highway 37 (or 4 miles south of Garvin just off Highway 70) in western McCurtain County. A four foot granite marker was laces at his gravesite by McCurtain County Historical Society to memorialize Chief Garvin, who made his home in McCurtain County.